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However, in particular, the loss of members of the two major churches is noticeable, namely the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, with a membership loss of approximately 589,500 members between 2003 (4,532,000 people, or 27.9% of the population) and 2013 (3,943,000 people, or 23.3%), [26] and the Protestant Church in the Netherlands ...
The Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) forms the country's second largest Christian denomination after the Catholic Church, with approximately 1.4 million members as per the church official statistics or some 7.9% of the population in 2023. [1]
Since 2004, they formed the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, a united Protestant church. During the same period, Islam increased from 0% to 5%. The main Islamic immigrants came from Surinam and Indonesia, as a result of decolonization; Turkey and Morocco, as migrant workers; and Iraq, Iran, Bosnia and Afghanistan as political refugees. In ...
On 1 May 2004, the Lutheran Church's membership was down to a mere 14,000 (in 1970 still 48,195 [1]) when it merged with the Dutch Reformed Church and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) formed in 2004 from the union of the Dutch Reformed Church (NHK), the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (GKN), and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (ELK); a notable Calvinist group within the PKN is the Reformed Association; Christian Reformed Churches (CGK)
Protestantism in the Netherlands (8 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Christian denominations in the Netherlands" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Vrijzinnige Geloofsgemeenschap NPB (English: Liberal Community of Faith NBP) is a liberal Christian denomination in the Netherlands, a member of the Dutch Raad van Kerken (English: Council of Churches) and the International Association for Religious Freedom. NPB stands for Nederlandse Protestanten Bond (English: Netherlands Protestant ...
The Netherlands, [k] informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . [ 13 ]